Help us restore Jules Rieffel’s Chapelle de Limerdin in Nozay (Brittany).
Jules Rieffel (1806 –1886) was born in Barr (Alsace). While travelling in western France after brilliant studies at Roville Agricultural School, Rieffel met a ship owner, Haent-jens from Nantes, who owned 500 hectares (1235 acres) in Nozay (Brittany). This vast but poor property was grown over in moors of gorses, heathers and brooms. Jules Rieffel succesfully undertook to clear the fields, develop new plantations, improve agricultural techniques and machineries. Eager to share his knowledge for the general good (his first students were children in public care), he created « L’école d’Agriculture de Grand Jouan » which became the first national school of French Agriculture. Jules Rieffel was its enthusiastic director from 1830 to 1881 and promoted an agricutural science based on experimental results. Eventually transfered to Rennes in 1896, the school is now « l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure agronomique de Rennes – Agrocampus. »
La chapelle avec son clocheton
Jules Rieffel was the author of many books on agricultural techniques, the inventor of the first agricultural shows, and the founder of the significant journal « Agriculture of Western France. He also founded l’Association Bretonne. He is recognized as a benefactor to the rural world of western France.
In 1830, Jules Rieffel had purchased the land and, in 1839, undertook to build a chapel in which his young dead son was buried. Jules Rieffel and 16 members of his family now rest there.
Together with les Amis de la Chapelle de Limerdin, the descendents of Jules Rieffel want to restore the roof of his chapel and honour his memory.
Marque page disponible en contrepartieJules Rieffel
For more information, visit the websites :
- Jules Rieffel's Wikipedia page
- Wikipédia page of the Superior National School of Agronomy of Rennes
- Chapelle de Limerdin Website
- More information on Limerdin
Hélène Lembezat Vannier
President of the Association Friends of the Chapelle de Limerdin.
You can support this project :
- by making a donation online by credit card on this page after registration on the Dartagnans site
- by making a bank transfer after registration on the Dartagnans website
- by sending a cheque, on the back of which you will include your e-mail address, addressed to the following order: "Friends of the Chapelle de Limerdin", sent to the following address:
Dartagnans
Campagne Restaurons la toiture de la Chapelle de Limerdin
15 rue de Milan
75009 PARIS
Sincerely,
Hélène Vannier-Lembezat
Contact email : [email protected]
